Cricket
The New Zealand v South Africa semi final was truly one of the great ODI matches, I don't believe that the South Africans choked they just lost a great game of cricket, the biggest irony was the fact that it was a South African that effectively won the game for the kiwis.
On a personal level I am starting to play cricket again with 2 appearances so far in the nets, the bowling came back reasonably easy the batting was a different matter, I was struggling to get over the natural instinct to get out of the away of a hard object being thrown at me from 22 yards.
The other continuing cricket story is Kevin Pietersen, last week there was an excellent/excruciating interview by Pat Murphy with James Whittaker where it was obvious he would rather stick pins in his eyes than pick KP for England.
Now Pietersen has signed for Surrey hopefully the talking will now stop and he can get on with scoring some runs, he is going to have to score a lot of hundreds to get in the team, but fair play to him he has given up a huge IPL salary to play 2nd division cricket for Surrey.
Random acts of kindness
I have read many times that a random act of kindness makes you feel far better about yourself, and I do try it, it is surprising just letting some one out in busy traffic and getting a sign of gratitude does give you a boost.
List of achievements
On the theme of reading the same thing many times, I have also read that Harvard did a study and students who wrote down their aspirations were far more likely to become achievers in life than those who didn't, I am still not sure writing a list will guarantee success and if it does why don't Harvard mandate it for all their students. That said I am going to try and document a list for next week.
Wednesday, 25 March 2015
Tuesday, 10 March 2015
Box Sets and why cricket beats football
House of Cards
I was never sure why people rave about box sets, but after finally deciding to catch up with House of Cards on Netflix, I can now see the appeal, you can watch whenever you want and you don't have to wait for a week to find out what happens next. The way we are watching television is definitely changing apart from watching live sport no one will let the TV schedules dictate there evening.
Briefly back to House of Cards is there a better actor around than Kevin Spacey
Cricket v Football
Where cricket scores over football is that it can create many memorable moments that don't always impact the result but stay in your memory, football apart from a memorable goal doesn't have enough scope to provide this, with the average game only providing 2.4 goals. Even in a one day cricket match there is a 100 overs where something fantastic can happen.
In the Cricket World Cup there has been two great moments I have seen so far.
Kane Williamson hitting the 6 to beat Australia and Dilshan taking 24 off a single Mitchell Johnson over
Leader Debates
I really don't have an opinion on these, I do think it is harder to defend rather than attack, the best quote I have seen on the subject is that the last round made Nick Clegg look good, and that didn't exactly turn out great.
I was never sure why people rave about box sets, but after finally deciding to catch up with House of Cards on Netflix, I can now see the appeal, you can watch whenever you want and you don't have to wait for a week to find out what happens next. The way we are watching television is definitely changing apart from watching live sport no one will let the TV schedules dictate there evening.
Briefly back to House of Cards is there a better actor around than Kevin Spacey
Cricket v Football
Where cricket scores over football is that it can create many memorable moments that don't always impact the result but stay in your memory, football apart from a memorable goal doesn't have enough scope to provide this, with the average game only providing 2.4 goals. Even in a one day cricket match there is a 100 overs where something fantastic can happen.
In the Cricket World Cup there has been two great moments I have seen so far.
Kane Williamson hitting the 6 to beat Australia and Dilshan taking 24 off a single Mitchell Johnson over
Leader Debates
I really don't have an opinion on these, I do think it is harder to defend rather than attack, the best quote I have seen on the subject is that the last round made Nick Clegg look good, and that didn't exactly turn out great.
Monday, 2 March 2015
Game Theory
Election Campaign
Started my own personal involvement in the General Election this week, helping out with delivering some leaflets. I was paired up with a guy who is standing for the local council, his reasoning for doing it was very admirable, (he wanted to create a legacy) but I still feel local politics is a lot of hassle for very little reward.
I am still fascinated by the polling situation and how the various groups can get a feel for where they are in the polls, all the polls are telling us at the moment is that it is going to be very close.
Game Theory
This seems to be a bit of a buzz word at the moment, I have done some research and it basically works on the very reasonable assumption that everyone makes decisions based on their personal gain, the text I read gave an incredible example using Mother Teresa, questioning why she sought publicity and fame.
Cricket World Cup
The scheduling of this is just baffling, how England can go from having 3 games in a week and then having an 8 day break. The competition has had some good games but the format is still not right, the tournament has lost its way ever since associate members have been involved. In my mind top 8 teams should all play each other just like in 1992.
Darts
On a personal note I hit my first maximum last week, which shows the more you practice the luckier you get.
Started my own personal involvement in the General Election this week, helping out with delivering some leaflets. I was paired up with a guy who is standing for the local council, his reasoning for doing it was very admirable, (he wanted to create a legacy) but I still feel local politics is a lot of hassle for very little reward.
I am still fascinated by the polling situation and how the various groups can get a feel for where they are in the polls, all the polls are telling us at the moment is that it is going to be very close.
Game Theory
This seems to be a bit of a buzz word at the moment, I have done some research and it basically works on the very reasonable assumption that everyone makes decisions based on their personal gain, the text I read gave an incredible example using Mother Teresa, questioning why she sought publicity and fame.
Cricket World Cup
The scheduling of this is just baffling, how England can go from having 3 games in a week and then having an 8 day break. The competition has had some good games but the format is still not right, the tournament has lost its way ever since associate members have been involved. In my mind top 8 teams should all play each other just like in 1992.
Darts
On a personal note I hit my first maximum last week, which shows the more you practice the luckier you get.
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